Showstopping skills: The Sombrero Flick

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Perfect the Neymar Sombrero flick with this video tutorial from professional football freestyler Daniel Cutting

The Sombrero flick is the preserve of a handful of the world’s best football tricksters. Think Ronaldinho and Neymar at their impudent best. You might get a crunching tackle for your trouble, but pull this off and you’ll look a million dollars.

To pull off this worldie trick takes serious skill and practice, so FFT have asked professional football freestyler, and five-time world record holder, Daniel Cutting to talk you through this flash of brilliance.

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Andrew Murray

Andrew Murray is an award-winning writer, columnist and editor, voted the Consumer Journalist of the Year at the 2015 PPA New Talent Awards. A fluent Spanish speaker and former semi-professional footballer, he was senior staff writer at FourFourTwo from 2012 to 2019, interviewing the biggest names in the game from Lionel Messi (twice), Neymar and Luis Suarez, to Sergio Aguero, Virgil van Dijk and Mo Salah for the cover, among others. He continues to write and edit for the brand on a regular basis, plus national newspapers, websites, the Olympic and Paralympic Games, and Premier League clubs. He is not a famous tennis player.